The Emergence of Public Opinion

In this paper we identify and compare the arguments offered by two leading Ottoman public intellectuals in the nineteenth century, Namık Kemal and Ziya Gökalp, on why Western institutions are compatible with those of their own society. We argue that these arguments exemplify patterns of reasoning, identified by cognitive social psychologists, which purport to resolve inconsistencies that arise in individuals' belief structures. We draw two conclusions from this analysis. Our first conclusion is that the ideas of Ottoman political thinkers, like those of their Western counterparts, constitute a domain of evidence for research in cognitive social psychology. We secondly conclude that political theories have resources to overcome ideological conflicts in a society without resorting to partisanship or utopianism.

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Early Socialism and the Impact of the Paris Commune on the Ottoman Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

Turnaoglu

2023

Global Intellectual History

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The Emergence of Public Opinion

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Early Socialism and the Impact of the Paris Commune on the Ottoman Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

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